Plagiostenopterina submetallica (Loew 1852)
Plagiostenopterina is a large genus with 10 Afrotropical species described. Plagiostenopterina is distinct in having microtrichia on the face, setulae on the scutellum, widely distributed over the surface and not restricted to the lateral margin.
Plagiostenopterina submetallica is blackish-aeneous metallic with a short whitish pubescence on thorax and abdomen. Frons entirely shining brownish-red. Antennae blackish with long thin arista, with apical palette in the male. Wing cell br is brown in colour and the costal margin is dark, and there is a dark infuscation along the crossvein dm-m. Knobs of halters pale yellow.
Original description:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/41528#page/672/mode/1up
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103636#page/59/mode/1up
Translated from Latin:
Greenish-black grayish, opaque; the costa of the hyaline wings is narrowly black-margined from the stigma to the apex of the fourth longitudinal vein; a black stripe runs from the base of the wing to the anterior crossvein (then thinner, finally fading) to the posterior crossvein which is black-margined.
Wing illustrated in:
Lamb, C.G. 1914. No. XV.—Diptera: Heteroneuridae, Ortalidae, Trypetidae, Sepsiae, Micropezidae, Drosophilidae, Geomyzidae, Milichidae. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Second Series–Zoology 16
https://ia601407.us.archive.org/12/items/biostor-127774/biostor-127774.pdf
Key and redescription in:
Hendel, F. 1914. Die Arten der Platystominen. Abh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 8(1)
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/28240#page/68/mode/1up
Type locality: Inhambane, Mozambique
iNat observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/164647036
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